Friday, August 7, 2009

TERMS IN EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

Behaviour: actions or reactions of a person in response to external or internal stimuli

Stimuli: any thing or event in the environment that evokes a response, overt or covert, conscious or subconscious or unconscious

Environment: circumstances or conditions that a person is in

Experience
: apprehension, realization of an object, thought or emotions through the senses; active participation in events/activities

Science
: methodical activity, discipline, study

Consciousness: mental alertness to a particular situation; being aware of one’s environment or existence, sensation and thoughts

Subconscious
: not wholly conscious; part of mind below level of conscious perception (e.g. hear a sound that recollect later)

Unconscious: lacking awareness and capacity for sensory perception; absence of conscious awareness/thought; involuntary or unintended

Covert: hidden, not seen

Overt: open, observable

Positive science: attempts to describe things as they are, not how they ought to be; descriptive, objective; e.g. pure physics

Normative science: how things should be; which things are good and which bad; which actions are right and which are wrong

Applied science: application of knowledge to solve particular problems

Perception
: understanding the information obtained through the senses

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